MSF: 70% of burn victims in Gaza are children – War on Gaza Day 568

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 56 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

21-year-old Ahmad Ibrahim Nassasra of the West Bank also died Saturday, succumbing to serious wounds he suffered when an Israeli soldier shot him two months ago near Nablus.

NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.

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Doctors Without Borders: 70% of burn victims in Gaza are children

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that “a burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and this is even more so in Gaza, Palestine,” following over 19 months of attacks by the Israeli forces, causing the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.

The organization stated, “As the Israeli authorities maintain the siege on Gaza, blocking access to basic aid, medical and life-saving supplies, many patients are left to endure excruciating pain with limited or no relief.”

It added, “since the Israeli forces resumed hostilities on 18 March, MSF teams have seen an increase in the number of patients with burn injuries – most of them children.”

“Since May 2024, MSF teams working in Nasser hospital have provided over 1,000 surgical operations to burn patients, 70 per cent of which have been children, most under the age of five,” stated MSF, adding that the causes of the burns ranged from bomb blasts to boiling water or fuel used for cooking or heating in makeshift shelters.

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Israeli soldiers of the 432 battalion share on their private accounts scenes showing them burning Hamed School, Next to Indonesi Hospital in Jabaliya refugee camp. — Israeli soldiers of the 432 battalion share on their private accounts scenes showing them burning Hamed School, next to Indonesi Hospital in Jabaliya refugee camp.

PCHR: A Pattern of Genocide: Israel Escalates Attacks on Families and Shelters in Gaza

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the escalating mass killings and systematic extermination of families as part of Israel’s ongoing military offensive against the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. This comes while famine spreads in Gaza within a systematic crime of genocide Israel has been committing in the Gaza Strip for 18 months.

PCHR’s field researchers have monitored a surge in the Israeli Occupying Forces’ (IOF) systematic extermination of Palestinian families through the relentless bombardment of houses, tents and shelters, where they had sought refuge, without a prior warning. IOF have also used highly destructive explosive weapons that erased more entire families from the civil registry.

According to our field documentation, at dawn on Saturday, 26 April 2025, Israeli warplanes bombed al-Khour Family house in al-Sabrah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing ten and wounding others. Meanwhile, many are still trapped under the rubble of the 3-storey house.

At around 01:50 on Friday, 25 April 2025, IOF used an explosive drone to target a tent for displaced Abu T’eimah family behind al-Aqsa University, western Khan Younis. As a result, five were killed and they were a couple and their 3 children identified as: Ibrahim Khalil Mousa Abu T’eimah (33), his pregnant wife Hanadi Sha’aban Abu T’eimah /Abu Sabet (29), and their children Samira (9), ‘Aazem (6), and Ra’afat (4). The family was erased from the civil registry (continue reading here).

Bodies of Palestinians who were killed in Israeli attacks, are brought to Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, Gaza on April 26, 2025.

Hamas official says it would release all captives for five-year truce

A Hamas official has reportedly said the Palestinian group is open to an agreement that would involve the release of all remaining Israeli captives and a five-year cessation of hostilities.

Speaking anonymously to AFP, the official said: “Hamas is ready for an exchange of prisoners in a single batch and a truce for five years.”

This comes after Hamas said on Friday that it would not accept any proposals that require its disarmament.

“The weapons of the resistance are not negotiable, and will remain in our hands as long as the occupation persists,” the group insisted in a statement.

NOTE: International law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, even to the point of armed resistance.

The people of Palestine have many legitimate grievances for which resistance is an appropriate response. Israel is, according to the International Court of Justice, plausibly committing genocide, illegal occupation, apartheid, extermination, and a targeted campaign of starvation – to name a few.

Al-Qassam Brigades hand over 3 female Israeli hostages to Red Cross as part of 1st phase of ceasefire and prisoner swap deal, in Gaza City, Gaza on January 19, 2025

Some fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why?

The Trump administration claims that its moves to defund universities, arrest and deport students and force schools to demote or monitor professors are meant to combat antisemitism, protect Jewish students and remove “Hamas-supporting” foreign nationals from the country.

American pro-Israel groups including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Hillel International, Aipac and the Heritage Foundation have united behind Republican measures to crack down on higher education and its putative antisemitism. Religiously identified groups such as the Orthodox Union and Christians United for Israel have joined the chorus, celebrating the punishment of supposedly antisemitic students and professors.

The pro-Israel campaign to “protect” Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. After a student complaint about a tenured Jewish professor’s Twitter post, Muhlenberg College fired her. The ADL has rewarded Muhlenberg by grading it “better than most” colleges for fighting “antisemitism”.

The ADL also accused Jewish Voice for Peace, a large, anti-Zionist Jewish group with chapters on many American campuses, of “promot[ing] messaging” that can include “support for terrorists”. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Columbia University expelled a Jewish graduate student and United Auto Workers local president who demonstrated against the war in Gaza.

The Trump administration recently sent all staff at Barnard College a questionnaire inquiring if they were Jewish, ostensibly to gauge campus antisemitism. For many, the experience of being asked by the government to self-identify as a Jew was terrifying (continue reading here).

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IMEMC Daily Reports

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 26, 2025:

At least 52,229 Palestinians killed, 125,384 injured – including:
at least 51,439 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
at least 964 killed in the West Bank (~187 children)
at least 117,416 injured in Gaza
at least 8,393 injured in the West Bank

According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19- March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 150 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – April 26, 2025: ~1,595 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 410 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org